Monthly Archives: October 2012

Update: Right to Repair

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We first reported on the Right to Repair campaign back in July 2008 when it was primarily aimed at trade awareness. We updated you in Jan 2010.

Our story in 2008 led:

Car manufacturers have in the past tried to stop the aftermarket supplying pattern parts and so protect their high profit margins. This in turn would have an adverse affect on the budget / enthusiast who could not afford the high price of replacement OEM components. They have also tried, and failed in the past to prevent the home mechanic working on his vehicle. However by building with increasing technology requiring specialised equipment they are effectively winning this battle slowly.

Not content with this they are now trying to prevent the Independent garages from servicing new vehicles by not renewing the Block Exemption regulations, which allowed the owner to shop around for servicing

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‘Scaremonger’ (One who spreads frightening rumours; an alarmist).

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It’s easy to claim that news is nothing more than scaremongering; you can then push it away as irrelevant to enforce your viewpoint on others and drive a campaign against that news to enforce your own agenda. Believe us when we say this happens. So often on forums we hear the voices of those who wish to knock ACE for their own reasons.

ACE is well aware that its articles are not always good news. It’s common to see other forums and websites feeding off articles we have presented and readers of those concluding that it’s scaremongering. The nature of the Internet is one where answers are demanded instantaneously, when readers don’t get them, they often wrongly conclude conspiracy and scaremongering.

But let’s wind the clock back a bit:

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Academia speaks out, “INNOVATION SHOULD NOT BE PUT AT RISK”.

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New EU regulation “ Roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers* ” threatens car tuning and any after sales improvements to the roadworthiness, safety and energy efficiency

(* Roadworthiness Package - Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL Periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers and repealing Directive 2009/40/EC. Brussels, 13.7.2025 COM(2012) 380 final 2012/0184 (COD).)

Andrew Torrance, University of Kansas Law School, Kansas City, KS, USA
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, USA
Jari Kuusisto University of Vaasa, Lapua, Finland

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